"These same changes, to reiterate, have been associated with all previous mass extinctions on Earth"
Really?
Timeline of (major) Mass Extinction Events: http://www.worldatlas.com/arti... 1 Holocene extinction - Present 2 Cretaceousâ"Paleogene extinction event 65 million years ago 3 Triassicâ"Jurassic extinction event 199 million to 214 million years ago 4 Permianâ"Triassic extinction event 251 million years ago 5 Late Devonian extinction 364 million years ago 6 Ordovicianâ"Silurian extinction events 439 million years ago
So the 'extinction events' are approx 65mya, 200mya, 250 mya, 360mya, and 440 mya?
Then we look in https://wattsupwiththat.com/20... for this: (CO2 vs time chart) https://wattsupwiththat.files.......which shows us (purple line) 65 mya- no CO2 spike (it had been falling steadily 60+ million years) 200 mya- yes CO2 spike 250 mya- no CO2 spike (it had been steady for about 60+ million years) 360 mya- no CO2 spike (a spike about 20my before this, though) 440 mya- CO2 rise over previous 20 my...no clear correlation at all. CERTAINLY not that CO2 changes have been associated with "ALL PREVIOUS MASS EXTINCTIONS". That's bullshit.
In fact, that chart shows that current CO2 levels are much lower than the bulk of the last 500 million years.
Further, this chart would serve as pretty serious disputation of ANY correlation between CO2 and warming, frankly. CO2 spikes seem to result in no impact to temperature or plummeting temperatures.
First it was referring to every remote-control anything as a "drone".
Then it's the universality of solar power because it's so 'competitive'....yes, as long as its subsidized to the tune of what 40x any other power generation industry?
Then it was the panegyrics about the end of the gasoline car when electrics are barely more than a boutique electric golf cart serving a *teensy* niche market.
Now it's "...As AI space gets crowded..." *WHAT* AI space? There is not ONE SINGLE ACTUAL AI ON THE PLANET. Not one. How the FUCK is it getting "crowded"?
I read "...mine different cryptocurrencies inside people's browsers (mostly Monero),..." and was like what's this new browser Monero that so many people are using that it's worth focusing malware on?
Maybe it could have been written better as: "...mine different cryptocurrencies (mostly Monero) inside people's browsers,..."
You may have not intended to appear plagaristic, as pretty much every nerd should recognize it, but sad to not attribute this genuinely funny comment to its ACTUAL author Douglas Adams.
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A passage about a pair of warring alien races, the Vl'Hurg and the G'gugvuntt, that wanted to launch an attack on Earth: "...Eventually of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy... For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog..")
I mean sure, having a slayer in town is probably handy but living on a Hellmouth with the collateral damage of all the fighting, to say nothing of the significant chance of being a VICTIM of one of the 'events' that seem to constantly happen....well, I simply can't see paying that much for a house there.
Nearly EVERY issue is ultimately an economic one. You have no credible argument there.
If you believe that the coverage of these issues by this textbook is going to be simply descriptive and objective, instead of subjective and prescriptive, I have some land in Florida I'd like to sell you.
To suggest that these items need to be covered in the BASICS (this is Econ 101, remember) and to have all these mentioned together explains quite clearly that the authors are going to have a 'stance' presented on each of these issues. I'm not blinded by ideology, you're simply either being naive or disingenuous.
Oh let's not pretend we're babes in the woods here, can we?
I'm pretty sure any basic economics textbook STARTING with the premise of studying 'inequality' is already starting with the presumption that inequality is bad ala Piketty.
Smith was quite clear on the role of government actively working in markets to ensure they remained level playing fields where monopolies and cartels wouldn't be able to close the market to new startups. Further, he talked about government management of infrastructure and education in ways which promoted commerce.
Mainly, however, it's that his emphasis was on LIMITED government, such that its actions didn't distort the market through protectionism and bias.
I know your point is "right wingers are stupid" but most of the conservatives I know are not anarchist libertarians. They're not even anti-tax; they're perfectly fine with government as long as it's limited in its role - a federal government whose primary function is the 'fair' redistribution of wealth and social justice would indeed make Smith spin in his grave.
It seems on slow news days we tend to get these articles. No hurricane to cover today? Write something about how history is ending. Say "we're running out of ideas" or some other blatant nonsense.
Maybe you'll get some annoyed but easily-manipulated idiot posting in reply, which is what we want. An annoyed click is still a click of revenue, right?
Try this then: trance music + police band. You have to play with the volumes of both until you get the right balance, but once you do it's strangely pleasant to listen to. Obviously, cities like Baltimore and Chicago have more chatter than Halifax.
I actually use this as background when I played Eve, it was a perfect level of 'activity' that made it seem so much less of a boring empty universe.
Probably NOT as entertaining if you are, in fact, an emergency services dispatcher.
EDIT: nice. Slashdot can't be bothered to use a posting system from THIS century, but they can detect and abort my post because I dared to paste a list! OMG.
What is causing such terrible hurricanes? Short memories, poor education, and confirmation bias. The simple fact is that hurricanes are neither more intense nor more frequent than "usual", the only thing that makes us think there are is that "we"are stupid. In fact, the relative dearth of hurricanes in the U.S. Is probably the major cause of this ignorance.
Source cited there. (from the article) The National Hurricane Center (NHC) provides information on major U.S. hurricanes during the past 100-plus years.According to the NHC, 70 major hurricanes struck the United States in the 100 years between 1911 and 2010. That is an average of 7 major hurricane strikes per decade. What are the trends within this 100-year span? Letâ(TM)s take a look.
Letâ(TM)s split the 100-year hurricane record in half, starting with major hurricane strikes during the most recent 50 years.
During the most recent decade, 2001-2010, 7 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is exactly the 100-year average.
During the preceding decade, 1991-2000, 6 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is below the 100-year average.
During the decade 1981-1990, 4 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially below the 100-year average, and ties the least number of major hurricanes on record.
During the decade 1971-1980, 4 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially below the 100-year average, and ties 1981-1990 as the two decades with the least number of major hurricanes.
During the decade 1961-1970, 7 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is exactly the 100-year average.
Incredibly, not a single decade during the past 50 years saw an above-average number of major hurricanes â" not a single decade!
Now letâ(TM)s look at the preceding 50 years in the hurricane record, before the alleged human-induced global warming crisis.
During the decade 1951-1960, 9 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average.
During the decade 1941-1950, 11 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially above the 100-year average.
During the decade 1931-1940, 8 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average.
During the decade 1921-1930, 6 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is slightly below the 100-year average.
During the decade 1911-1920, 8 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average.... During the past 5 decades, an average of 5.6 major hurricanes struck the United States. During the preceding 5 decades, and average of 8.4 major hurricanes struck the United States.
And the board of directors should be* held responsible for the management practices that allowed this sort of error to happen.
Ultimately, the buck needs to stop somewhere, that's why they get the very big bucks. I believe their CEO was paid $13.4 million last year. Taking that, plus the lush salaries of their board and other c-levels, would be a start.
*OK I'm even laughing as I type, knowing how unlikely this is
If venture caps are stupid enough to hand millions to some dipshit without a discernible business plan and a burn rate of nearly $90k PER DAY, that's their idiotic choice. I can't say his 'vanishing' the Burning Man is an iota off-course in terms of my expectations of his personality.
Then again, if I'd lost 7+ figures on his promises, the least I would do is make sure the next 5-6 figures I'd spend would be to have him killed gruesomely as a...reminder...to other irresponsible developers that ultimately promises matter.
Considering Disney makes literally the worst POSSIBLE choices every time as far as distribution of their product, I'd say Netflix should see this as validation.
VHS? Disney ran SCREAMING away from it, insisting it was going to destroy filmmakers, finally grudgingly dragging itself back to VHS...about the time DVDs came out.
DVD? Hahaha, Disney (insisting such tech would destroy filmmakers and the entire industry) backed the original Divx, which was a rental scheme by which you could buy the disk for about triple the price of a movie rental, and you could then play it (once it validated itself and your purchase in what was essentially an early IoT-locked dvd player) for 48 hours. If you wanted to play it past that 48 hours, you could pay again. (http://www.dvdjournal.com/extra/divx.html)
So...pretty much any tech that Disney's terrified of will soon become the defacto standard.
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They refer to 'concerns' over how Uber reports crimes in their cabs?
What, specifically, do they mean?
What are they doing or not doing that's different than the Black Cabs? Are there specific incidents?
Be specific, or it sounds more like a political hit job.
"These same changes, to reiterate, have been associated with all previous mass extinctions on Earth"
Really?
Timeline of (major) Mass Extinction Events:
http://www.worldatlas.com/arti...
1 Holocene extinction - Present
2 Cretaceousâ"Paleogene extinction event 65 million years ago
3 Triassicâ"Jurassic extinction event 199 million to 214 million years ago
4 Permianâ"Triassic extinction event 251 million years ago
5 Late Devonian extinction 364 million years ago
6 Ordovicianâ"Silurian extinction events 439 million years ago
So the 'extinction events' are approx 65mya, 200mya, 250 mya, 360mya, and 440 mya?
Then we look in https://wattsupwiththat.com/20... for this: (CO2 vs time chart) https://wattsupwiththat.files.... ...which shows us (purple line) ...no clear correlation at all. CERTAINLY not that CO2 changes have been associated with "ALL PREVIOUS MASS EXTINCTIONS". That's bullshit.
65 mya- no CO2 spike (it had been falling steadily 60+ million years)
200 mya- yes CO2 spike
250 mya- no CO2 spike (it had been steady for about 60+ million years)
360 mya- no CO2 spike (a spike about 20my before this, though)
440 mya- CO2 rise over previous 20 my
In fact, that chart shows that current CO2 levels are much lower than the bulk of the last 500 million years.
Further, this chart would serve as pretty serious disputation of ANY correlation between CO2 and warming, frankly. CO2 spikes seem to result in no impact to temperature or plummeting temperatures.
Except you entirely missed my point. Now they CAN claim it's parodying someone chasing a stupid copyright claim.
Perfect example of *misuse* of language you mean?
Carefully tuned vehicle, moving at a very precisely maintained speed in controlled conditions on a flat test track carrying no passengers.
That's not a "commercial bus" in ANY sense. That's a test vehicle, more like a prototype, that may indeed be "bus shaped".
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ov...
In fact, his pursuing rigorous legal claims over such a stupid use makes him prone to parody or satire, which opens up fair use even further.
Well played!
"...As AI space gets crowded..."
Jesus, just STOP already?
First it was referring to every remote-control anything as a "drone".
Then it's the universality of solar power because it's so 'competitive'....yes, as long as its subsidized to the tune of what 40x any other power generation industry?
Then it was the panegyrics about the end of the gasoline car when electrics are barely more than a boutique electric golf cart serving a *teensy* niche market.
Now it's "...As AI space gets crowded..." *WHAT* AI space? There is not ONE SINGLE ACTUAL AI ON THE PLANET. Not one. How the FUCK is it getting "crowded"?
...except when you're running a 15t 'car' through a tube of still barely 2" thick at the SPEED OF SOUND.
Over 6000 expansion joints in a 600km track.
Suspended about 25mm from the sides with magnets.
Holy god this is a terrible idea.
Sounds like he's complaining more about human nature than anything to do with mobile computing or google.
I read "...mine different cryptocurrencies inside people's browsers (mostly Monero),..." and was like what's this new browser Monero that so many people are using that it's worth focusing malware on?
Maybe it could have been written better as: "...mine different cryptocurrencies (mostly Monero) inside people's browsers,..."
You may have not intended to appear plagaristic, as pretty much every nerd should recognize it, but sad to not attribute this genuinely funny comment to its ACTUAL author Douglas Adams.
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A passage about a pair of warring alien races, the Vl'Hurg and the G'gugvuntt, that wanted to launch an attack on Earth:
"...Eventually of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy...
For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog..")
Exactly. The entitled eventually end up eating themselves.
I mean sure, having a slayer in town is probably handy but living on a Hellmouth with the collateral damage of all the fighting, to say nothing of the significant chance of being a VICTIM of one of the 'events' that seem to constantly happen....well, I simply can't see paying that much for a house there.
Nearly EVERY issue is ultimately an economic one. You have no credible argument there.
If you believe that the coverage of these issues by this textbook is going to be simply descriptive and objective, instead of subjective and prescriptive, I have some land in Florida I'd like to sell you.
To suggest that these items need to be covered in the BASICS (this is Econ 101, remember) and to have all these mentioned together explains quite clearly that the authors are going to have a 'stance' presented on each of these issues. I'm not blinded by ideology, you're simply either being naive or disingenuous.
Oh let's not pretend we're babes in the woods here, can we?
I'm pretty sure any basic economics textbook STARTING with the premise of studying 'inequality' is already starting with the presumption that inequality is bad ala Piketty.
Smith was quite clear on the role of government actively working in markets to ensure they remained level playing fields where monopolies and cartels wouldn't be able to close the market to new startups. Further, he talked about government management of infrastructure and education in ways which promoted commerce.
Mainly, however, it's that his emphasis was on LIMITED government, such that its actions didn't distort the market through protectionism and bias.
I know your point is "right wingers are stupid" but most of the conservatives I know are not anarchist libertarians. They're not even anti-tax; they're perfectly fine with government as long as it's limited in its role - a federal government whose primary function is the 'fair' redistribution of wealth and social justice would indeed make Smith spin in his grave.
It seems on slow news days we tend to get these articles.
No hurricane to cover today? Write something about how history is ending. Say "we're running out of ideas" or some other blatant nonsense.
Maybe you'll get some annoyed but easily-manipulated idiot posting in reply, which is what we want. An annoyed click is still a click of revenue, right?
"...who wants to learn about issues like inequality, globalization, and the most efficient ways to tackle climate change..."
That's not a list of economics subjects, that's a political agenda.
Try this then: trance music + police band.
You have to play with the volumes of both until you get the right balance, but once you do it's strangely pleasant to listen to. Obviously, cities like Baltimore and Chicago have more chatter than Halifax.
I actually use this as background when I played Eve, it was a perfect level of 'activity' that made it seem so much less of a boring empty universe.
Probably NOT as entertaining if you are, in fact, an emergency services dispatcher.
http://youarelistening.to/chic...
Lots of cities available: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Halifax, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis, Montréal, Newark, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, St. John's, St. Louis, Saint Petersburg, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Juan, Wichita
EDIT: nice. Slashdot can't be bothered to use a posting system from THIS century, but they can detect and abort my post because I dared to paste a list! OMG.
What is causing such terrible hurricanes?
Short memories, poor education, and confirmation bias.
The simple fact is that hurricanes are neither more intense nor more frequent than "usual", the only thing that makes us think there are is that "we"are stupid.
In fact, the relative dearth of hurricanes in the U.S. Is probably the major cause of this ignorance.
Your own examples show that national registration programs work just fine.
For small vehicles that aren't commonly engaged in international commerce, that sounds fine.
So no, you pretty much proved why a U.N. run registry is a dumb idea. Is that what you intended?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...
Source cited there.
(from the article)
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) provides information on major U.S. hurricanes during the past 100-plus years.According to the NHC, 70 major hurricanes struck the United States in the 100 years between 1911 and 2010. That is an average of 7 major hurricane strikes per decade. What are the trends within this 100-year span? Letâ(TM)s take a look.
Letâ(TM)s split the 100-year hurricane record in half, starting with major hurricane strikes during the most recent 50 years.
During the most recent decade, 2001-2010, 7 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is exactly the 100-year average.
During the preceding decade, 1991-2000, 6 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is below the 100-year average.
During the decade 1981-1990, 4 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially below the 100-year average, and ties the least number of major hurricanes on record.
During the decade 1971-1980, 4 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially below the 100-year average, and ties 1981-1990 as the two decades with the least number of major hurricanes.
During the decade 1961-1970, 7 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is exactly the 100-year average.
Incredibly, not a single decade during the past 50 years saw an above-average number of major hurricanes â" not a single decade!
Now letâ(TM)s look at the preceding 50 years in the hurricane record, before the alleged human-induced global warming crisis.
During the decade 1951-1960, 9 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average.
During the decade 1941-1950, 11 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is substantially above the 100-year average.
During the decade 1931-1940, 8 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average.
During the decade 1921-1930, 6 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is slightly below the 100-year average.
During the decade 1911-1920, 8 major hurricanes struck the United States. That is above the 100-year average. ... During the past 5 decades, an average of 5.6 major hurricanes struck the United States.
During the preceding 5 decades, and average of 8.4 major hurricanes struck the United States.
...Equifax shouldn't survive this.
And the board of directors should be* held responsible for the management practices that allowed this sort of error to happen.
Ultimately, the buck needs to stop somewhere, that's why they get the very big bucks. I believe their CEO was paid $13.4 million last year. Taking that, plus the lush salaries of their board and other c-levels, would be a start.
*OK I'm even laughing as I type, knowing how unlikely this is
...I couldn't care less.
Caveat investor.
If venture caps are stupid enough to hand millions to some dipshit without a discernible business plan and a burn rate of nearly $90k PER DAY, that's their idiotic choice. I can't say his 'vanishing' the Burning Man is an iota off-course in terms of my expectations of his personality.
Then again, if I'd lost 7+ figures on his promises, the least I would do is make sure the next 5-6 figures I'd spend would be to have him killed gruesomely as a ...reminder...to other irresponsible developers that ultimately promises matter.
Considering Disney makes literally the worst POSSIBLE choices every time as far as distribution of their product, I'd say Netflix should see this as validation.
VHS? Disney ran SCREAMING away from it, insisting it was going to destroy filmmakers, finally grudgingly dragging itself back to VHS...about the time DVDs came out.
DVD? Hahaha, Disney (insisting such tech would destroy filmmakers and the entire industry) backed the original Divx, which was a rental scheme by which you could buy the disk for about triple the price of a movie rental, and you could then play it (once it validated itself and your purchase in what was essentially an early IoT-locked dvd player) for 48 hours. If you wanted to play it past that 48 hours, you could pay again. (http://www.dvdjournal.com/extra/divx.html)
So...pretty much any tech that Disney's terrified of will soon become the defacto standard.
"..In case you're curious, the estimated sticker price for attending Harvard College during the 2017-2018 school year is $69,600-$73,600 ..."
Let's be clear, the sticker price ..really only applies to white and Asian hetero males.